Wednesday Week 31 2019
• The Bachelor launches with 800,000+, wins all key demos
• Troublesome Tom Gleeson returns with new Hard Quiz episodes
• Good Knight for SBS with King Arthur and new Knightfall
• Seven News 1,027,000/992,000
• Nine News 897,000/901,000
• A Current Affair 705,000
• ABC News 640,000
• 7.30 660,000
• The Project 300,000/511,000
• 10 News First 365,000
• The Drum 169,000
• SBS World News 155,000
Breakfast TV
• Sunrise 276,000
• Today 214,000
Seven
Home and Away had its second night above 700,000 after slipping to 672,000 on Tuesday.
An hour of Highway Patrol then did 534,000.
The movie Wonder Woman then helped Seven win the night keeping 329,000 watching until 11.30pm.
Nine
A Current Affair has gone from 885,000 on Monday down to 705,000 Wednesday, trailing Home And Away narrowly in the timeslot.
An hour of Young Sheldon did 435,000 and 349,000.
The 2017 movie The Fate Of The Furious was on 267,000, running until just after 11pm.
10
The Bachelor’s Matt Agnew was a special guest on The Project 7pm which helped push the audience just over half a million after two nights just under that mark.
Agnew was then the star attraction on the launch episode of The Bachelor 2019 with 828,000 watching the first two contestants departing the mansion after a very short stay. The launch audience was well down on the crowd of 940,000 curious as to how The Honey Badger would go last year. The episode won the key demos of the night under 50.
An episode of My Life Is Murder followed with 416,000 watching Don Haney in lycra with long hair. It was a fun episode and the former detective played by Lucy Lawless displayed her liking for NZ pop hits when she turned on her smart speaker in the kitchen.
ABC
George Calombaris was the star on 7.30 with an exclusive interview from one of his restaurants with Leigh Sales. There was not too much we didn’t already know, but Sales managed to move Calombaris to reveal how much of an emotional toll the past couple of years has taken on him. The audience was on 660,000, close to the channel’s best for the night.
The audience lifted a little for the return of Gold Logie-winning devilish quizmaster Tom Gleeson and Hard Quiz at 8pm. Experts last night chose Joan Crawford, K-Pop group BTS, rugby hero John Eales and Jewish holidays (the winner) as their specialist subjects. The audience for episode 11 of season four was 667,000.
Mad As Hell then kept the channel’s momentum with 660,000 watching.
Squinters then did 348,000.
SBS
A big TV Knight for the channel started with King Arthur’s Britain with 277,000 watching.
Two episodes then started a new season of Knightfall and they averaged 105,000.
